Das Wort zum Sonntag:
Islamist: Wer sich so kleidet, begeht eine Sünde.
Frau: Es gibt 54 muslimische Länder, und trotzdem kommen sie zu mir nach Hause und behaupten, Speck und Hunde seien anstößig. Tut mir leid, aber die können sich zur Hölle scheren.
We're not talking enough about THIS moment from the #Duke football game immediately after he struck her
She is AFRAID of him after the first hit and is now watching his face and keeping her arm up to attempt to protect herself from another blow from Kimari Robinson
French journalist Paul Amar:
“They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners.
In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t”
Some of humanity’s oldest myths contain the same warning: not to look back. Lot’s wife looks back at the world she was leaving and turns into a pillar of salt. Orpheus looks back for Eurydice before they have completely escaped the underworld and loses her. In Japanese mythology Izanagi looks back at Izanami in the land of the dead and discovers that the woman he remembers no longer exists. Different cultures, different stories, but all have the same message….that there are thresholds in life that can only be crossed by accepting that what was behind you is gone.
This doesn’t mean we have to forget the past. But it does mean refusing to live there. The past can teach you, shape you, and become material for the Great Work, but it cannot be inhabited again. We become frozen when we keep trying to resurrect an old relationship, an old life, an old identity, or an old version of ourselves. Transformation requires something to die so that something else can be born. Sometimes the final test of an initiation is simply this: can you keep walking without turning around?
As a reminder: Days after Charlie’s assassination, Ilhan Omar said his legacy belonged in the “dust bin of history” and called efforts to honor him “jarring.”
After this, we moved to censure her and remove her from committee assignments. Congress chose to protect her instead.
Just like they did when we tried to subpoena her immigration records.
What is Congress hiding? Why are they protecting her?
Ray Bradbury escribió en Fahrenheit 451: «Mi tío afirma que los arquitectos eliminaron los porches delanteros no por su aspecto, sino para evitar que la gente se sentara a conversar y balancearse. La desaparición de los porches sirvió para suprimir la reflexión y el diálogo. Ya no quedan jardines ni mecedoras; todo se ha vuelto incómodo. Han puesto a la gente en movimiento, siempre corriendo, sin tiempo para pensar».
At what point do we look at all these stories. Men raping. Men murdering. Men killing wives. Men killing kids. Men assaulting women. Men marrying 8 year olds. Men hanging, beating and dragging women to their death in Iran. Men/boys shooting up schools. At what point do we grasp men are deeply unwell and need a societal intervention from boyhood to middle age.